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Relative importance of learning vs. teaching

When is the time to publish or speak about something? When is the time to stop and start researching something new?

Sometimes I believe that economic or accounting principles should be applied to the very process of knowledge acquisition and disemination. At the moment the process by which people decide whether to continue learning about something or stop and consolidate that knowledge seems very haphazard. I am not aware of a single formal model of this very basic activity.

That's not to say that one doesn't exist; I just don't know of any. It would be a weight off my shoulders if I could consult a model of "further research vs. consolidation and disemination of knowledge" in my dailing goings on. Using intuition alone may not be enough to get the trade-off right.